a heifer clambers up

a heifer clambers up

     nighthawk goes out

                       horses

trail back to the barn.

      spider gleams in his

                          new web

dew on the shingles, on the car,

    on the mailbox –

the mole, the onion and the beetle

    cease their wars.

                       worlds tip

into the sunshine, men and women

     get up, babies crying

children grab their lunches

                         and leave for school.

the radio announces

     in the milking barn

                        in the car bound for work

"tonight all the countries

      will get drunk and have a party"

russia, america, china,

                         singing with their poets,

pregnant and gracious,

    sending flowers and dancing bears

                        to all the capitals

fat

     with the baby happy land